1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910736496103321

Autore

Marcus-Sells Ariela <1985->

Titolo

Sorcery or Science? : Contesting Knowledge and Practice in West African Sufi Texts / / Ariela Marcus-Sells

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : The Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2022]

©2022

ISBN

9780271093062

9780271093079

9780271092294

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Collana

Magic in History

Disciplina

297.4092266

Soggetti

Islamic magic - Sahara - History

Sufism

Sufism - Sahara - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The visible world -- The realms of the unseen -- The sciences of the unseen -- Bridging the worlds in prayer.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines the works of two Sufi Muslim scholars, Sīdi al-Mukhtār al-Kuntī (d. 1811) and his son Sīdi Muḥammad (d. 1826), focusing on their cosmology and metaphysics of the realm of the unseen, in relation to the history of magical discourses within the Hellenistic and Arabo-Islamic worlds"--



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910816691703321

Autore

Garrido Anguita Juan Manuel

Titolo

El sur de la peninsula Iberica y el Mediterraneo occidental : relaciones culturales en la segunda mitad del II milenio a.C. / / Juan Manuel Garrido Anguita

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Archaeopress, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-78491-645-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (583 pages)

Disciplina

930

Soggetti

Antiquities

Civilization

Iberian Peninsula Antiquities

Lingua di pubblicazione

Spagnolo

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Greek epics are the basis for the first speculations that link societies all along the Mediterranean coast. This book strives to distinguish reality from myth in the pursuit of a bond of certainty between the data provided by historical, literary and archaeological sources.